Raging angry after stopping Lexapro???

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I stopped it a month ago. Already put on here I stopped dead at 10mg, think that was wrong, have admitted might have been too fast lesson learnt etc so don't need a pep talk. Don't know if that's why I'm like this but I'm fucking fuming. Has anyone else had constant anger issues after stopping an antidepressant? Like despise everyone and everything type anger????

I came off Sertraline a few months ago and experienced intense rage, just as you describe. Initially, I didn’t know whether it was a side effect or my actual un-medicated personality (I’ve been on SSRI’s for 20 years, since I was a teen).

Anyway, I did some digging about my experience and found that a LOT of people online have experienced rage attacks during anti-depressant withdrawal. It seems to go away in time, though the time frame seems to vary grately.

For me personally, my rage issues lasted around 6 weeks. I do not Know if they went away due to time or if their disappearance was due to some other actions I have taken (I’ve also been doing behaviour therapy online, using a tdcs headset and done some work on recognising, expressing and meeting my own needs. This may have helped with my recovery).

I would suggest that Reddit is a pretty good resource for reading about others’ experiences with SSRI withdrawal induced rage. It definitely helped me to feel like it wasn’t just something that happened to me!

I hope you don’t suffer with this for too long x

Also though, don’t discount the possibility that the people around you and the world we live may just be rage inducing. Especially if you have kids 😬

This is just a thought for you OP. I recall that depression is often called, 'anger turned within'. So feeling a lot of rage , coming off your ADs may possibly allow you to feel that anger that you once turned on yourself .

If you are able to feel it, accept its presence, and try to process where it is coming from, or against what or whom it is aimed, maybe that could help you get over this strong emotion and come out stronger? At any rate, don't beat yourself up for it. Rage is an emotion like any other and it us trying to tell you something.